Nuno felted wool and in-laid bamboo yarn onto cheesecloth
Nuno felted wool onto silkI know that these pictures need to be re-shot as they are taken on one of my chairs in my studio!! But...I just wanted to get something up to show off the different effects one can achieve with nuno felting. Eventually, I will get images of an actual workshop I instructed up to show the process. Nuno felting is wet felting into an open weave fabric. When you nuno felt, you are the ultimate decision maker in how much or how little wool you wish to felt onto your scarf, or material. I, myself being a minimalist, prefer to use little wool. Another reason why I choose to use fewer amounts of wool is that it allows for more shrinkage, puckering, and gives the natural materials more room to do what they naturally want to do.
When nuno-felting, you basically want to layer wool onto your fabric and then follow your typical wet-felting process to achieve the ultimate shrinkage. The idea is that you wool will felt into the fabric, thus creating the puckered effect. A really good nuno-felted scarf will be visible from the backside of the scarf, where you will notice some wool coming through the fabric.
The two scarves above show a different techniques that I like to incorporate. The top one shows how you can inbed other materials (I used some red bamboo yarn), by layering them in between your layers of wool on the fabric. I layered white wool so that it would not distract from the concentrated blotches of red. For the second scarf, I layered the wool in a criss cross, hatching pattern so than once wet-felted, you will notice shrunken pockets.
Just be warned...this not something for those who want exact outcomes. Wool, when it shrinks, will take on its own life and the outcomes are always slightly different.
These two scarves in particular, are currently for sale at LUX Center for the Arts, in Lincoln for anyone who is looking for a great christmas gift!
When nuno-felting, you basically want to layer wool onto your fabric and then follow your typical wet-felting process to achieve the ultimate shrinkage. The idea is that you wool will felt into the fabric, thus creating the puckered effect. A really good nuno-felted scarf will be visible from the backside of the scarf, where you will notice some wool coming through the fabric.
The two scarves above show a different techniques that I like to incorporate. The top one shows how you can inbed other materials (I used some red bamboo yarn), by layering them in between your layers of wool on the fabric. I layered white wool so that it would not distract from the concentrated blotches of red. For the second scarf, I layered the wool in a criss cross, hatching pattern so than once wet-felted, you will notice shrunken pockets.
Just be warned...this not something for those who want exact outcomes. Wool, when it shrinks, will take on its own life and the outcomes are always slightly different.
These two scarves in particular, are currently for sale at LUX Center for the Arts, in Lincoln for anyone who is looking for a great christmas gift!
